Beryl Pilkington
@berylpilking.bsky.social
retired professor of nursing & global health
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New Polling: New national polling shows a clear message from people across Canada: they want urgent climate action to not only protect their health but also reduce methane emissions from oil and gaz.
November 25, 2025 at 8:52 PM
New Polling: New national polling shows a clear message from people across Canada: they want urgent climate action to not only protect their health but also reduce methane emissions from oil and gaz.
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Why was an MP — not CBSA, not IRCC, not the PMO — the one to announce an “entry ban” on Kneecap? The Immigration Minister still hasn’t responded. Canadians deserve clarity, transparency, and accountability. #cdnpoli #Kneecap
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PMO and CBSA say they weren’t part of Kneecap entry ban announcement - National | Globalnews.ca
The Prime Minister's Office and the Canada Border Services Agency say they weren't 'involved' or 'consulted' in an announcement of an apparent entry ban on the Irish group Kneecap.
globalnews.ca
November 25, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Why was an MP — not CBSA, not IRCC, not the PMO — the one to announce an “entry ban” on Kneecap? The Immigration Minister still hasn’t responded. Canadians deserve clarity, transparency, and accountability. #cdnpoli #Kneecap
globalnews.ca/news/1154127...
globalnews.ca/news/1154127...
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Congratulations to Jenn Pfenning on being reelected for her second term as president of the National Farmers Union. Jenn is a passionate advocate of local, sustainable agriculture. As a family owner of Pfennings Organic Farm in Wilmot, she is a tireless warrior in the #FightForFarmland.
November 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Congratulations to Jenn Pfenning on being reelected for her second term as president of the National Farmers Union. Jenn is a passionate advocate of local, sustainable agriculture. As a family owner of Pfennings Organic Farm in Wilmot, she is a tireless warrior in the #FightForFarmland.
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🌎 Check out the latest edition of our COP30 Dispatch: Final Stages, published last week.
And keep an eye out for a final update from us soon with a more in-depth analysis of the final COP decision, reflections from the Peoples’ Summit, and what it all means for our important Fair Shares work.
And keep an eye out for a final update from us soon with a more in-depth analysis of the final COP decision, reflections from the Peoples’ Summit, and what it all means for our important Fair Shares work.
COP 30 – Newsletter #2: COP30 – Final Stages
Phew! COP30 is progressing at breakneck speed while 50,000 delegates (of which 1600+ are fossil fuel lobbyists) try to keep up. We’ll provide more in-depth analysis after the conference ends, but for ...
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November 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
🌎 Check out the latest edition of our COP30 Dispatch: Final Stages, published last week.
And keep an eye out for a final update from us soon with a more in-depth analysis of the final COP decision, reflections from the Peoples’ Summit, and what it all means for our important Fair Shares work.
And keep an eye out for a final update from us soon with a more in-depth analysis of the final COP decision, reflections from the Peoples’ Summit, and what it all means for our important Fair Shares work.
This wil lock us in to more expensive energy well into the future. Exactly the wrong direction we should be heading.
🔍 New analysis: #Ontario’s plan to shift over 70 % of our electricity to nuclear — up from ~50 % today — will drive higher bills & increased reliance on U.S. natural gas. #onpoli
Read more → https://ow.ly/LJKq50XxKbf
Read more → https://ow.ly/LJKq50XxKbf
November 25, 2025 at 8:52 PM
This wil lock us in to more expensive energy well into the future. Exactly the wrong direction we should be heading.
Join me in asking the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board to protect our pensions and the climate and stop investing in oil, gas, coal and pipelines. A legal case is already underway. It’s time to stop investing in fossil fuels and recommit to net-zero. win.newmode.net/shiftaction/...
New/Mode | Make your voice impossible to ignore
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November 25, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Join me in asking the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board to protect our pensions and the climate and stop investing in oil, gas, coal and pipelines. A legal case is already underway. It’s time to stop investing in fossil fuels and recommit to net-zero. win.newmode.net/shiftaction/...
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We need strong leadership from Mayor Chow and Toronto City Council to shut down the dirty Portlands gas plant on Toronto’s waterfront. #topoli #onpoli share.nwmd.social/s/4MFmFcBi
Will Mayor Chow shut down Toronto’s dirty power plant?
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November 24, 2025 at 4:37 PM
We need strong leadership from Mayor Chow and Toronto City Council to shut down the dirty Portlands gas plant on Toronto’s waterfront. #topoli #onpoli share.nwmd.social/s/4MFmFcBi
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Today is National Housing Day. I write this from Vancouver, one of Canada’s wealthiest cities, and where homelessness reached an all-time high this year.
It wasn’t always this way. Canada has a massive deficit of affordable public housing, ever since Liberal governments slashed funding in the 90s.
It wasn’t always this way. Canada has a massive deficit of affordable public housing, ever since Liberal governments slashed funding in the 90s.
November 22, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Today is National Housing Day. I write this from Vancouver, one of Canada’s wealthiest cities, and where homelessness reached an all-time high this year.
It wasn’t always this way. Canada has a massive deficit of affordable public housing, ever since Liberal governments slashed funding in the 90s.
It wasn’t always this way. Canada has a massive deficit of affordable public housing, ever since Liberal governments slashed funding in the 90s.
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This report is damning.
Canada must adopt @jennykwan.bsky.social’s arms embargo bill immediately. Anything less is complicity in a human rights catastrophe that will haunt Canada for generations to come.
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Canada must adopt @jennykwan.bsky.social’s arms embargo bill immediately. Anything less is complicity in a human rights catastrophe that will haunt Canada for generations to come.
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Arms Embargo Now!
Our new report has just exposed a massive pipeline of military aircraft parts and explosives flowing from Canada to Israel via the U.S., facilitated by a deadly loophole in Canadian law.
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November 18, 2025 at 3:19 PM
This report is damning.
Canada must adopt @jennykwan.bsky.social’s arms embargo bill immediately. Anything less is complicity in a human rights catastrophe that will haunt Canada for generations to come.
armsembargonow.ca/nomoreloopho...
Canada must adopt @jennykwan.bsky.social’s arms embargo bill immediately. Anything less is complicity in a human rights catastrophe that will haunt Canada for generations to come.
armsembargonow.ca/nomoreloopho...
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Shocker: Trump’s “peace plan” for Ukraine is actually a massive money grab.
“Europeans fume at Trump’s plan to profit from frozen Russian assets”
www.politico.eu/article/stev...
“Europeans fume at Trump’s plan to profit from frozen Russian assets”
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‘Witkoff needs a psychiatrist’: Europeans fume at Trump’s plan to profit from frozen Russian assets
Diplomats and officials react with outrage to new details of the U.S. peace plan, warning it could wreck their efforts to help Ukraine survive the war.
www.politico.eu
November 23, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Shocker: Trump’s “peace plan” for Ukraine is actually a massive money grab.
“Europeans fume at Trump’s plan to profit from frozen Russian assets”
www.politico.eu/article/stev...
“Europeans fume at Trump’s plan to profit from frozen Russian assets”
www.politico.eu/article/stev...
Calling Canadians who care about community.
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Parliamentarians: Deliver Homes for All - Leadnow
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November 21, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Calling Canadians who care about community.
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This is disturbing.
Behind the back of BC, the Carney gov’t seems 2 be moving 2 signing a MOU w/ Alberta on a new pipeline 4 the North BC coast, breaking the ban on oil tankers.It’s irresponsible in the face of coastal opposition & ignores concerns of Indigenous Peoples.#SayNoToTankers
November 21, 2025 at 6:04 PM
This is disturbing.
Torontonians, please join me and @toenviro.bsky.social and @stand.earth in calling on Toronto's leaders to make sure our city's buildings are ready to take on climate change: act.stand.earth/page/88238/d...
Tell City Hall: We need to green Toronto’s buildings
Make your voice heard
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November 21, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Torontonians, please join me and @toenviro.bsky.social and @stand.earth in calling on Toronto's leaders to make sure our city's buildings are ready to take on climate change: act.stand.earth/page/88238/d...
I chipped in to the @PressProgress.ca legal defence so journalists can keep holding the powerful to account. This case could set a chilling precedent across Canada. If you can, please donate and share. pressprogress.ca/journalism-defence/donate
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Support Our Journalism Defence Fund PressProgress is at the centre of what could be one of the biggest, longest and most expensive media trials in recent Canadian history. A former star candidate for ...
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November 21, 2025 at 5:29 PM
I chipped in to the @PressProgress.ca legal defence so journalists can keep holding the powerful to account. This case could set a chilling precedent across Canada. If you can, please donate and share. pressprogress.ca/journalism-defence/donate
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After promising landed status on arrival for caregivers, government shut the pilot without explanation—while 34,000 cases remain stuck in backlog. Cutting PR quotas will leave caregivers waiting over 7 years. Caregivers should never be treated as 2nd class. Expand allocation and clear backlog now.
November 20, 2025 at 8:09 PM
After promising landed status on arrival for caregivers, government shut the pilot without explanation—while 34,000 cases remain stuck in backlog. Cutting PR quotas will leave caregivers waiting over 7 years. Caregivers should never be treated as 2nd class. Expand allocation and clear backlog now.
Great way to build the national economy. Invest in a dieing industry. 😖
www.theenergymix.com/breaking-wit...
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BREAKING: With Pipeline Deal Coming Soon, New Analysis Shows Big Risks for Investors, Crushing Losses for Provinces
With the federal and Alberta governments touting an imminent deal on a new oil pipeline to British Columbia’s northwest coast, analysis released Thursday morning concludes that investors in Canadian o...
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November 20, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Great way to build the national economy. Invest in a dieing industry. 😖
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Renewable energy is cheaper and healthier – so why isn’t it replacing fossil fuels faster?
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Renewable energy is cheaper and healthier – so why isn’t it replacing fossil fuels faster?
Politics is just one challenge. The cost of borrowing to build wind and solar farms is another, especially in fast-growing developing countries. There are solutions.
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November 19, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Renewable energy is cheaper and healthier – so why isn’t it replacing fossil fuels faster?
theconversation.com/renewable-en...
theconversation.com/renewable-en...
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Five corporations control 90% of the US media market.
Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.
The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.
The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
November 19, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Five corporations control 90% of the US media market.
Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.
The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.
The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
Canada must prioritize human life in Sudan over the pursuit of blood money in the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) and exert pressure on the U.A.E. to stop aiding and abetting war crimes in Sudan. share.nwmd.social/s/5arE4EPW
War crimes in Sudan: Canada must act now
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November 20, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Canada must prioritize human life in Sudan over the pursuit of blood money in the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) and exert pressure on the U.A.E. to stop aiding and abetting war crimes in Sudan. share.nwmd.social/s/5arE4EPW
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"The lungs of the world are in your hands!" That was our message for #COP30 negotiators this week. Standing in front of a giant pair of lungs, health professionals from around the world joined our call to phase out #fossilfuels to protect health and save lives.
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CAPE physicians unveil giant lungs to demand fossil fuel phaseout at COP30
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November 19, 2025 at 8:33 PM
"The lungs of the world are in your hands!" That was our message for #COP30 negotiators this week. Standing in front of a giant pair of lungs, health professionals from around the world joined our call to phase out #fossilfuels to protect health and save lives.
youtube.com/shorts/pIavx...
youtube.com/shorts/pIavx...
War crimes in Sudan: Canada must act NOW interpares.ca/news/war-cri...
War crimes in Sudan: Canada must act NOW
Canada must break its silence about the U.A.E.’s support to the RSF militia.
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November 20, 2025 at 2:29 AM
War crimes in Sudan: Canada must act NOW interpares.ca/news/war-cri...
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ICYMI: Analysis by @policyalternatives.ca has suggested much of the savings could come from letting many Trudeau-era programs expire, including short-term funding for disaster responses and improving access to health care. #Budget2025 www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
Why it will take months to get details on Mark Carney’s plans to cut $58.2 billion in federal spending
But more than a week after the prime minister revealed his highly-anticipated first budget, questions remain about what exactly the sacrifices will be and how they will come to fruition
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November 18, 2025 at 11:05 PM
ICYMI: Analysis by @policyalternatives.ca has suggested much of the savings could come from letting many Trudeau-era programs expire, including short-term funding for disaster responses and improving access to health care. #Budget2025 www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
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The latest CBC report shows why Canada urgently needs tighter oversight on military exports. When Canadian components can end up in airstrikes abroad, we have a responsibility to act.
That’s why I introduced Bill C-233 to strengthen export-control accountability.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
That’s why I introduced Bill C-233 to strengthen export-control accountability.
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Canadian-made jet fighter maintenance parts, bombs shipped to Israel via U.S., report suggests | CBC News
Hundreds of shipments of explosives and fighter jet components have made their way from Canada to Israel by passing through the U.S. over the last two years, a new report by a group of four NGOs alleg...
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November 18, 2025 at 11:13 PM
The latest CBC report shows why Canada urgently needs tighter oversight on military exports. When Canadian components can end up in airstrikes abroad, we have a responsibility to act.
That’s why I introduced Bill C-233 to strengthen export-control accountability.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
That’s why I introduced Bill C-233 to strengthen export-control accountability.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...